self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
Excellence emerges from intimacy with imperfection
Laura Cincera • Tweet
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
― Rainer Maria Rilke
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yesterday a friend said: “doesn’t freelancing make you feel simultaneously self-actualized and completely behind in life?”
and yeah. that’s exactly it.
freelancing makes me feel free, and terrified, and proud, and like a failure.
all at once. every day.
and yeah. that’s exactly it.
freelancing makes me feel free, and terrified, and proud, and like a failure.
all at once. every day.
Peter Yang • Rose McMackin on Substack
“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – never lie to yourself.”
—Paulo Coelho
—Paulo Coelho
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Tired: Rushing to quick answers or public declarations
Wired: Sitting with questions, refining them in trusted company, and waiting until the shape of truth emerges
Yancey Stricklerx.com
“I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.” — Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
Peter McEwen • Tweet
“Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself…. His task was to discover his own destiny — not an arbitrary one — and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own
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